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| 221. |  | Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state Author: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 222. |  | Title: The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period Author: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 223. |  | Title: Weak foundations: the economy of El Salvador in the nineteenth century  Author: Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes provides the first in-depth economic history of El Salvador during the crucial decades of the nineteenth century. Before independence in 1821, the isolated territory that we now call El Salvador was a subdivision of the Captaincy General of Guatemala and had only 250,000 inhabit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 224. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 225. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 226. |  | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 227. |  | Title: The Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands, and Asia Minor Author: Cohen, Getzel M Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 228. |  | Title: Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain Author: Kagan, Richard L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 229. |  | Title: Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 Author: García, Maria Cristina 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American History | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies Publisher's Description: In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García - a Cuban refugee raised in Miami - has experienced firsth . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 230. |  | Title: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India Author: Mani, Lata 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati , or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 231. |  | Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany Author: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | German Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 232. |  | Title: Divided loyalties: nationalism and mass politics in Syria at the close of Empire Author: Gelvin, James L 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Politics Publisher's Description: James L. Gelvin brings a new and distinctive perspective to the perennially fascinating topic of nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Unlike previous historians who have focused on the activities and ideas of a small group of elites, Gelvin details the role played by non-elites in nationalist politi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 233. |  | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | Aging Similar Items |
| 234. |  | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communism Author: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | History Publisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 235. |  | Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s Author: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 236. |  | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 237. |  | Title: Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Religion Similar Items |
| 238. |  | Title: The power of position: Beijing University, intellectuals, and Chinese political culture, 1898-1929 Author: Weston, Timothy B 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals - from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be - how Beida' . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 239. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 240. |  | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | Religion Publisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more] Similar Items |